SEC-S16 / W4 | "The Environment and Our Health"🌍👩‍⚕️

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A person's environment is always used as a measure to know how healthy the person is. Healthy in this term doesn't necessarily mean how chubby a person is or an increase in size, but a total well-being of a person and a freedom from diseases.

This term brought about the engagement challenge which is tagged "The Environment and our Health" brought to us by @hive-168205 in the healthy steem community. This topic will bring up awareness to many people in how to take care of their environment and how well a person's Environment affects his/her health.

Before i go in to the challenge proper I would love to invite my friends to engage and possibly take part in this week's challenge. @bossj23, @patjewell, @ngoenyi

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We repeated the meaning of an environment five good times, this was just to get it into our head, this is a way of getting things in our memory during our primary school days. We would recite them loudly, reading them from the blackboard then close and eyes and recite.

"An Environment is our surrounding in which we live". This was just a simple way of us defining an environment but as we grew older we had an advanced definition of what an environment is.

I see environment as a natural habitat in which man activities and well being are carried on. An Environment consists of our natural and physical surroundings both living and nonliving things.

Our surrounding plays a very big role in our well-being, we cannot stay in a very polluted environment and expect to be free from chronic diseases which affects our lungs and wind pipes. The environment predicts how healthy a person is. People living in habitats that are polluted seem to suffer from one illness to the other.

Many companies throw out their waste to the rivers and streams which is used by the villagers, now the fishes gotten from such stream have already had contact with this waste products, based on the chemicals used it can affect both the fish and the consumers.

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We interact quickly with our environment, if there is any change in the environment like a gas leakage we tend to perceive it so fast, now look at any kind of air pollution, it will be gotten quickly from people in the surrounding.

In terms of exploitation of our natural resources, many oil industries exploit the oil and leave on spillages to float the our lands and water, this oil kill fishes and causes a lot of casualties to the consumers of these fishes and also to the aquatic life. Many people in such environment used this water for cooking and drinking purposes, now any intake of such water will result into disease and it will affect the health greatly.

• Air: we breathe in air throughout our lifetime and any change or pollution of the air we breathe will affect our health because we can't stop breathing.
• Water : This is a very major thing needed in life, we can't live without water. If an environment had only one source of water and it was polluted, if they can't hold on any longer they will have no other choice than to take the polluted one.

So all these forms of pollution affects our health greatly.

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A clean environment is an healthy environment, taking care of our environment will give us the assurance that we will be healthy.

• Cleaning and sweeping our immediate environment, taking away refuse and waste products for incineration.
• Making the environment look greener by planting new crops to make the ecosystem balance.
• Disposing waste properly.

I wouldn't know much about the pollution's, I would have been aware of the ones I see but through education I have been able to learn more about pollution. Education has brought enlightenment In the area of pollution. Creating awareness and enforcement has helped eradicate pollution.

Imposing laws that marketers should dispose waste properly has helped keep the markets clean and free from pollution. We do see many market environment which is polluted with waste products and the gutters blocked by waste. Awareness and education has made us know more about pollution and it's consequences.